Will Shakespeare

Will initially went to college to study ceramics and took glassblowing as a subsidiary part of his course. Since then, he's spent his entire career working with glass, first as a technician and tutor, after he graduated from West Surrey College of Art and Design, and later as a craftsman with his own workshop.
 "It's a fascinating and seductive material and many things appealed to me about it," says Will. "Glass demands spontaneity and physicality. Once it's out of the furnace you either make something or you don't. It's one of the few materials you have to be proactive with. You can't stop; you must keep working and keep the glass hot. And, unlike ceramics, you can't hide anything with glass; it's transparent. The tolerances are less too."
 
(From an article by Robert Hesketh)

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